I honestly think we may have found out some shit we didn't really want to know - or at least that the government didn't want the public to know. I think we've been back, but much more covertly.

I can't begin to imagine what the truth might be, but it makes exactly no sense for a species that likes to settle and control every patch of viable land it touches to visit someplace like the moon and never return.

I can't imagine that we are staying away (or keeping our visits secret) without a very good reason...

I can't begin to imagine what the truth might be, but it makes exactly no sense for a species that likes to settle and control every patch of viable land it touches to visit someplace like the moon and never return.

Quoting: Em18966

This is my thinking as well. Terra Nova! But we're never going back after a few visits in the late 60s/early 70s?

As far as seeing something we weren't supposed to...it's argued the government first had formal contact with ETs after Roswell. Assuming that's true, if the aliens didn't want us on the moon, they probably would have told us before the Space Race.

Unless Roswell was BS, and we first became aware of ETs with the real moon landings.

But I have a hard time believing ETs warning us to never go back is the real reason.

Congress approves all funding. They cut funding for Apollo before it was even finished. They redirected it to the shuttle program that stagnated for 30 years.

Quoting: Weasel_Turbine

So the question becomes if NASA still has a budget in the billions, why can't that money be allotted toward more moon exploration?

I don't understand the reason for not going back.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 11330901

NASA's budget has been hacked and slashed since Apollo. They also don't just get a lump sum to do whatever they want. Their budget is approved for individual projects and often cut from what is requested for those. You want to go back to the Moon, talk to Congress. The problem with that is most politicians are more worried about the next election. Trips to the Moon and Mars won't pay off for them in their term and they definitely don't want it to pay off for the next guy.

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